Knowledge is important, but only if we’re being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.
I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.
I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.
The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.
Compassion is not a virtue – it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have – it’s something we choose to practice.
Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.
It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.
If we can’t stand up to the ‘never good enough’ and ‘who do you think you are?’, we can’t move forward.
Courage is like – it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.
Worthiness doesn’t have prerequisites.
Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there’s no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.
Hope is really a thought.
We’re raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment.
We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can’t use shame to change ourselves or others.
I only share when I have no unmet needs that I’m trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.
I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits.
The opposite of play is not work – the opposite of play is depression.
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.
Tell your story with your whole heart.